UK nurses lack training to identify and care for women in domestic abuse

UK nurses do not receive
adequate training to identify and
care for women in domestic abuse

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Issue in clinical practice.........................................................................................................1
Current local and national policy...........................................................................................3
Professional and clinical guidelines.......................................................................................5
Significance of the issue to current practice or healthcare.....................................................7
Strategies to overcome with the issue....................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Lack of training among nursing staff refers to lack of appropriate knowledge level ad clinical
skills which are essential to deal with patients. It includes the problem of developing inaccuracy
in practices or nurses and their decision making which impact negative on patient condition.
However, it has been analysed that professionals are required to be encouraged to follow
professionals’ standards and legislations in terms of providing better quality of services
(McGarry, Simpson and Hinsliff-Smith, 2014). In context of this assignment, it is based on the
topic of ‘UK nurses do not receive adequate training to identify and care for women in domestic
abuse”. This project will focus on the problem of nurses of given country in respect of gaining
learning to deliver effective care for women suffering from domestic abuse. It will also include
current local and national policy for specific issue in clinical practice. The professional and
clinical guidelines with significance of current issue along with strategies to overcome are given
below.
MAIN BODY
Issue in clinical practice
“UK nurses do not receive adequate training to identify and care for women in domestic abuse.”
Domestic abuse can be explained about the condition in which bodily harm or injury occurs to
family or household member. As per views of MW and Appleton (2016), it includes to beat or
intent to cause fear in another of immediate harm to human body or death. Basically, it is known
to be an intentional infliction, or attempted infliction of bodily harm upon another. It involves the
condition of domestic violence which is any kind of behaviour for reason of acquiring power as
well as control over a spouse, partner or intimate family member. This type of condition is
caused due to number of factors such as anger, mental problems, drugs or alcohol or other
common excuses. However, it has been analysed that women were mostly get suffered from
domestic abuse or assault to which specific clinical practices are required to be carried out by
nursing staff in UK for welfare of them. It is necessary to establish more effective as well as
efficient clinical practices in respect of delivering facilities for wellbeing of such patients. In this
article, the qualitative research method is used to gather appropriate data which provide support
to gain accurate findings about the topic. It includes the utilisation of secondary sources
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including books, journals, articles, newspapers, magazines etc. However, the data and
information collected by WHO is considered to attain desired findings of study.
On the other hand, it is observed that women who were suffering from domestic abuse then most
of them were suffered from physical injuries as well as psychological disorders. These kind of
harmful conditions are responsible for developing extreme level of fear and disturbed mental
health condition of an individual which needs to provide counselling to make them stable along
with providing medications to overcome with the same. However, the domestic abuse can be
categorised into several categories such as physical abuse by kitting slapping, shoving, grabbing,
pinching, biting, hair pulling and so on. It involves sexual abuse which includes coercing or
attempting to coerce any sexual contact without consent, marital rape, forcing sex, attacks on
sexual parts of the body etc. In addition to this, it consist emotional, economic and psychological
abuse for which specific practices are required to conduct for making person stable. Moreover, it
is essential for hospital management to provide specific training for nursing staff to deal with
physical injuries. Emotional disturbances and psychological problems occurred due to domestic
abuse.
The UK nurses needs to gain specific knowledge to deal with every particular kind of domestic
abuse to deliver more accurate services for better health of women. Al‐Natour, Qandil and
Gillespie (2016) states that it is observed that females may acquire severe physical and mental
health issues. Many times, it has been identified that some of females become much more fearful
as they were not able to face anyone to remain close to them. In such cases, it is necessary
separate and effective training for nurses so that they can deal with these cases in appropriate
manner. The lack of training and learning programs for nurses is responsible for developing
complicated condition because they were not able to handle severe cases of domestic abuse. It is
required to proper knowledge about such mental conditions acquired due to domestic abuse to
make patient feel comfortable to provide medications and treatment. Sometimes, few of patients
become abusive and violent then they cannot be managed by untrained nurses but only specified
and trained mental health nurses can handle them properly. In context of this article, the
descriptive phenomenological design is used to conduct effective study by considering sample of
12 respondents including males and female nurses. It includes the utilisation of semi structured
and face to face interview to collect desired information. However, the Colaizzi’s
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